Ways to Display Award Medals
- Award medals can be displayed by wearing them around your neck.Aaron Graubart/Photodisc/Getty Images
Earning an award medal represents a noteworthy achievement, which should be recognized more than once. After you receive an award medal, you should find a way to display it in your home. You will get a confidence boost when you notice it each day, and it will be on display for visitors to see as well. - A medal can be combined with other artifacts and trinkets in a photo frame, which can be hung on a wall. MilitaryMemories.us features many different designs that incorporate award medals with photos, patches, pins and ribbons. The medals are thin enough to fit in the photo frame, and you get the choice of whether you want other items to accompany your medals.
- Displaying a medal on your chest with a hanging lanyard gives you a way to show off your award medal in public settings. A lanyard is like a necklace, though is usually thick enough to hold the weight of the medal, and has a clip at the bottom to attach the medal. The Olympic Games present medals to the top three finishers in each event and award recipients bow to allow a presenter to place a lanyard over their neck.
- Medals that are attached to lanyards can be hung from hooks, giving you a lot of flexibility as to how you want them displayed. You can screw hooks into a wall in your home, or you can attach a metal medal display containing hooks to the wall. FingerLakesMetalcraft.com makes flat metal designs that can be personalized and have hooks on the bottom.
- Tall trophies provide an excellent spot to hang medals. Some events award trophies to champions and others prefer medals, and that can leave you with two different types of awards. To keep them all together, you can drape the lanyards around the figurines on top of your trophies. A lanyard that is longer than the height of the trophy will not look good, though, so you should either get shorter lanyards or place blocks under your trophies so the medal can hang.
